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Title: A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
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Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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reesuccessors, Marduk-akhi-erba, Marduk-zer-(. . . .), and Nabu-shum-libur,with whose reign the Fourth Dynasty closed (cf. King, Proc. Soc. Bibl.Arch./ p. 221). The dynasty founded by Simmash-Shipak has by some beenregarded as of Chaldean origin; and it is possible that Chaldean tribes, thoughnot mentioned in the inscriptions before the period of Ashur-nasir-pal andShalmaneser, had already begun to overrun the southern districts of Baby-lonia. For a discussion of a passage in a religious chronicle, which maypossibly record a solar eclipse in Simmash-Shipaks seventh year, see King,Chronicles, I., pp. 232 ff., and Cowell, Monthly Notices of the Roy.Astr. Soc, LXV,, pp. 865, 867. 258 HISTORY OF BABYLON and Shilanum-Shukamuna ; but they reigned betweenthem less than four years, and the throne then passedfor six years to an Elamite,^ whose rule is regarded bythe later chroniclers as having constituted in itself theSeventh Babylonian Dynasty. A stable government was once more established in
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Pig. 58. SCENE REPEESENTING NAB6-MUKIN-APLI SANCTIONING A TBANSFEB OP LANDED PBOPERTY. Arad-Sibitti, accompanied by his sister, receives the royal sanction to thetransfer of an estate, situated in the district of Sha-mamitu, to his daughter asher dowry. (Prom Boundary-Stone No. 90835 in the British Museum.) Babylonia by Nabu-mukin-apli, the founder of the EighthDynasty,^ though even in his reign Aramean tribes con- ^ For the possible restoration of his name as Ae-aplu-usur, seeChronicles, I., p. 200f. 2 There were about thirteen kings of the Eighth Dynasty, and, thoughtheir names are completely wanting in the Kings List, some of them arepreserved in records concerning their relations with Assyria. In the gapbetween Nabu-mukin-apli and Shamash-mudammik we may probably placeSibir, a Babylonian king whom Ashur-nasir-pal mentions as having foundedAtlila, a city in Zamua, which he himself rebuilt as a royal residence and RELATIONS WITH ASSYRIA 259 tinued to give trouble, holding the Euphra

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